Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

What You'll Do

• Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems that power LiveKit Cloud
• Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure
• Build libraries, protocols, and tooling that raise reliability and developer velocity across the org
• Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights
• Shape new platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management

Requirements

• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
• Take ownership end-to-end - prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate
• Comfortable with consensus, coordination, and the realities of distributed failure modes
• Think in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness; reduce complex systems into understandable components
• Value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems that others enjoy working with

Nice-to-Haves

• Go fluency (or intent to learn)
• Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos)
• Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure
• Shipped observability tooling (tracing, metrics, at-scale logging)

Technologies

• Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible vacation policy